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Devon Branch Spring Break 2025 By popular demand we are returning to the Palace Hotel Paignton, Devon for our Spring Break next year, 21st -23rd February 2025. We have reserved rooms, and the hotel has once again offered us an excellent deal of £48 per person per night, including a three-course dinner, bed and breakfast, plus tea/coffee on arrival. Book by the 1st December 2024 for this deal. The Sea View Supplement is £10.00 pppn. There is free use of the health suite (treatments extra) and there is free parking at the hotel. Paignton bus and train stations are conveniently located in the centre of the town, just a short stroll from the beachfront. From here you can explore all the delights of South Devon; catch the steam train to Kingswear and then get on the passenger ferry to Dartmouth or catch the luxurious Gold Bus to Torquay or Plymouth. To make a booking phone The Palace Hotel on 01803 555121 quoting ‘IPA Spring Break’ as a reference or email the hotel rm@palacepaignton. com Further details from Owen Harris owen.r.harris@live.co.uk or Una Blundell u.blundell@btinternet.com More information about the hotel and its facilities can be found here: https://palacepaignton.com Section Ireland NEC invitation Section Ireland extended a kind invitation to Region 2 Chair Deirdre Mahony and Regional 2 Retired members’ liaison officer Dianne McConaghie to their National Executive Committee in beautiful Killarney in the Kingdom of Kerry. As usual, it was a very successful conference chaired by Vice President Marie Daly, following which Marie hosted a gala dinner. Gifts were exchanged between Section Ireland and No 2 Region and the evening provided for great networking opportunities. Worthy of note, there is an IPA house in Killaraney if you ever want to visit this really beautiful part of Ireland. Indeed, if you check the hosting book you can do a road trip of the west, south and east coast of Ireland using Section Ireland’s 6 IPA houses. Highly recommended.

Student evening at Garnerville PSNI College Deirdre Mahony Chair and Petra Loyer Treasurer IPA No 2 Region, at the student information evening at Garnerville Police College explaining all the benefits to joining IPA. The latest intake of students were a very enthusiastic lot, with hopefully some new members for our region.

Police World Back Copies

Thank you to Fred Boyd & Peter Ashworth for providing us with the missing Police World magazines from our Archives after a request went out in the previous issue. Michele Rai , IPA Section UK Business Operations Manager

POLICE WORLD Vol 69 No.3, 2024

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